Re: Remove diff machinery dependency from read-cache

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Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> By the way, do you think anybody still uses "git merge-trees"?
> >
> > IMO this is the only viable way to a non-broken merge-recursive.  Removing 
> > it would be counterproductive.
> 
> Do you mean you don't think
> 
>     Subject: Re: git-merge segfault in 1.6.6 and master
>     Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:38:56 -0800
>     Message-ID: <7vaaw7j7mn.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>     ...
>     In the meantime, I think applying this patch is the right thing to do.
> 
>     -- >8 --
>     Subject: merge-recursive: do not return NULL only to cause segfault
> 
> would help us?

Sorry, I cannot have a look at this now.

But in the long run, I think that it gets tiring to chase all kinds of 
weird interactions between unpack_trees(), the rename detection and the 
recursive merge.

I could see merge-trees as a viable alternative approach.

Ciao,
Dscho

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